hide.me OpenVPN Update – Taking Online Security To Another Level

Keeping with the rapidly increasing cyber theft and security breaches, to provide impenetrable online security to our customers, hide.me has updated its OpenVPN configuration. Currently, we aim only to support versions of OpenVPN 2.3.3 or higher. The encryption strength we offer now is based on 8192-bit public keys and AES256 symmetric encryption. We will discontinue support for lower public key strength and 128 bit AES.

Reasons, Why We Moved to the Newer Version of OpenVPN?

Main Reasons:

We wanted to own the public key infrastructure and not rely on any third party. With the new update, we can offer ultimate and uninterrupted online privacy to our OpenVPN users. Now, our new configuration works in this way:

In the current configuration the key for our Root CA is embedded and it is basically replacing the previous file “TrustedRoot.pem” from the previous configuration. With this certificate you verify the identity of our VPN servers, which also uses 8192 bit public keys to ensure the highest possible security and privacy. However, the majority of providers only support 2048 bit keys while some support only 1024 bit keys.

With the new update, we introduced static keys and TLS 1.2 compatibility to strengthen the security and these features are only supported by OpenVPN 2.3 and above. Now, we also provide “Perfect Forward Secrecy”.

Perfect Forward Secrecy is a feature of specific key agreement protocol which assures that your session keys will not be compromised even if the private key of the server is compromised.

Other Reasons Include:

We use tun interfaces exclusively now

With the new update, we introduced dynamic port mapping, so you can connect on any port between port 4000 to 4100.

We hash each OpenVPN packet with SHA256 in addition to being encrypted with AES-256-CBC.

We added tls-version-min 1.2 option, so that OpenVPN would use the TLS version 1.2 and not a weaker TLS version. If TLS 1.2 is not supported by your client, we still support previous TLS version but the user needs to modify the configuration.

OpenVPN users can check the configuration files and make the required changes by following these easy steps from “SETUP Page“.

Benefits of New OpenVPN Update

Like we already said, the main reason behind the new OpenVPN update is taking the online security to the next level. Believe it or not, hackers and spammers are always trying to stay one step ahead. So, to beat them in this cyber war, hide.me takes major steps and strengthens it’s online security whenever possible.

Not only hide.me users can stay secure and protected all the time with the new OpenVPN update, but they will also be able to enjoy much faster speeds. So, if you are an existing user of hide.me, configure OpenVPN on your device right away.

For all online privacy seekers, this is your chance to get impenetrable privacy with hide.me VPN.

Need Help ?

Not sure what to do, no problem! all you need to do is write to our support team at support@hide.me and they would be more than to help you with this update.